According to the World Steel Association (WSA), in 2014 world steel production amounted to 1665 mln tonnes - a 1% rise in comparison with 2013. The list of
The iron and steel industry is perhaps the most important element of a nation's industrial economic infrastructure, and the consumption of steel per capita
Steelmaking facilities use one of two processes. In the integrated steelmaking process, iron is extracted from iron ore in the blast furnace and the molten
Over the past 20 years, the use of the steel industry's co-products has during iron and crude steel production are slags (90% by mass), dust and sludge.
Mergers and acquisitions were common among the world's steel makers and iron ore producers around the turn of the century. The trend is to build a globally
The puddling furnace was initially a means of producing wrought iron but was later applied to steel production. The real revolution in modern steelmaking
The US iron and steel industry has paralleled the industry in other countries in technological developments. In the 1800s, the US switched from charcoal to
Steel is primarily produced using one of two methods: Blast Furnace or Electric Arc Furnace. The blast furnace is the first step in producing steel from iron
